INDIAN ENCAMPMENT.
—The ambition of the Alaska Indian boys is seen in the response made by one Rudolph who was urged to marry a chief’s widow, “I would never marry dirty old Indian; for $1,000 I never marry her. When I am a man, I want to take a good, clean girl for wife. I want her to know books and to housekeep like Boston girl. I not like it my house all dirty, my children not washed.”
—According to the latest statistical report of the Missionary Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, it had among the Indians thirteen ordained and licensed preachers, seven candidates, forty ruling elders, twenty-nine deacons, twenty-four organized congregations, and five hundred and twenty-seven communicants.
—Bishop Whipple, on a recent visit to the Indians of his diocese, administered the communion to 247 Chippewas. Fifteen years ago there was scarcely one communicant among them; now there are 8 churches in that mission, and they are building one to cost $10,000.
BENEFACTIONS.
S. E. Lee, Esq., of Richmond, Va., has recently given $5,000 to Wake Forest College.
The Earl of Zetland has given $25,000 to the Edinburgh Association for the university education of women.
Mrs. Senator Grimes, of Burlington, has given $1,000 for Blair Hall, Iowa College.